Word: malan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vorster went to jail, and the Nazis lost the war, but in 1948 the Malanites had a chance to win South Africa's elections. Malan stumped the veld, urging South Africans to vote for segregation for the Negroes and separation from the British. "God," he announced, "is on our side...
Workaday apartheid, as applied by Malan, is simply another word for turning down the screws on the blacks. It is 100,000 Negroes jailed each year for failing to carry a pass. It is 60-year-old Jane Zuma, a Johannesburg washerwoman, trudging ten hot miles to deliver her mistress' laundry because she is not allowed to ride on the white man's buses. It is Veteran John Kumalo, a talented Negro broadcaster, beaten up and jailed on the way to his broadcasting studio, and released three days later, innocent of any offense. In Malan...
...Malan has a naively simple solution to the problem of native crime: hire more cops, build more prisons. (The jail population of South Africa is greater than that of Britain, which has four times its population.) But increasing numbers of South Africans-both Boer and British-are beginning to realize that jails are not enough. They recognize-though somewhat reluctantly-that, short of mass murders, there is nothing that can prevent the black man from eventually attaining political and economic rights, either by law or by revolution. It is for the white man to choose which...
Hard Solution. Jan Christian Smuts used to say, "If we see any wrong, let's put it right without bothering about possible repercussions on our grandchildren." But Daniel Malan, stiff-necked in his self-righteousness, has chosen to force a hard solution. The heirs of Smuts in Parliament are ineffectually led by boyish-faced Jacobus Gideon Strauss, an anglicized Boer who apes Smuts's mannerisms but lacks his master's voice. Outside Parliament they have found an idealistic but impulsive leader in Adolf ("Sailor") Malan, a cousin of the Prime Minister...
...they are not "nigger lovers." Arguing in Parliament for technical training for black workers, Jacobus Strauss declared, "Higher skills are in any case beyond the capacity of Negroes." Oddly enough, it was an ardent Malanite who set him straight. "Negroes can do skilled work if trained for it," replied Malan's Labor Minister Barend...